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Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive

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newbie2 wrote on 22. August 2014:
>
> I am very interested in installing Linux Ubuntu on an external hard
> drive. Ideally, I hope that when I plug this HD to my desktop which has
> Windows 7 operating system, then I can use Ubuntu to do my programming
> work and all my code, database mysql, Eclipse, Java etc all are
> installed at the external hard drive. Then I can unplug it from this
> desktop and plug into a laptop, I can continue my work left at
> Desktop. Is this possible?

I do have an Ubuntu installation on a jump drive, installed to be
"persistent". Every time I boot from it it takes off where I shut it
down. You could also have chosen to start fresh every time (you lose your
work unless you saved it to your Windows partition or elsewhere before
shut down).

Because USB sticks tend to die after a few years (at least mine use to do
this ;-) an external HD, usually plugged in via USB, will do a better job.

You plug in the drive, insert the installation media of your favorite
Linux distribution and then select the external drive for installation
(be careful not to accidentally wipe the Windows partition). You should
also set boot priority to first use USB. That's about all there is to
know.
-- 
Andreas

I wish my grass was emo. Then it would cut itself.

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a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive newbie2 <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-22 08:11 -0700
  Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-08-22 10:37 -0500
  Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-22 17:17 +0000
  Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive newbie2 <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-22 11:06 -0700
    Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-08-22 14:30 -0500
    Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-22 19:34 +0000
    Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-08-22 20:16 +0000
  Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2014-08-22 10:08 -0800
  Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Andreas Kohlbach <aug14.8.ankman@spamgourmet.com> - 2014-08-22 15:20 -0400
    Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive newbie2 <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-22 12:28 -0700
      Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Andreas Kohlbach <aug14.8.ankman@spamgourmet.com> - 2014-08-22 15:41 -0400
  Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Balwinder S Dheeman <bdheeman.SANSPAM@outlook.com> - 2014-08-24 18:06 +0530

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